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Quotes About Posturings

Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.
~ Charles Kennedy
I have seen people and their fruitless societies in such repetitive posturings that their nonsense fills me with boredom
~ Frank Herbert
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged (...) Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
~ Carl Sagan
Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, In need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, Keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces. [...] So primp, preen, prink, pluck, and prize your flesh, All posturings! All ravishment! All sensibility! Meanwhile, have you used your mind today?
~ Carolyn Kizer